Garment hanger



Dec. 4-, 1951 E, CARLTON 2,577,567

' GARMENT HANGER Filed Aug. 2, 1947 v INVEN TOR. EARL E EARLTUN PatentedDec. 4, 1951 GARMEN'I, HANGER r 7 Earl E. Carlton, San Francisco, Calif.77 I Application August 2,1947, Serial No. :765,733

1 Claim. (c1. 223 865 i This invention relates to improvements ingarment hangers and has particular reference to a hanger that isdesigned for supporting a coat and a pair of trousers.

An object of the present invention is to construct a combined coat andpants hanger in such a manner that it will permit the trousers to besuspended from and supported on the hanger.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a suit hangerwhich includes a frame portion for the coat and a removable pantshanger, so-called, as to permit the trousers to be disposed over thehanger and suspended there from by the belt straps or other portion ofthe trousers.

An additional object of the present invention is the provision of acombined coat and pants hanger in which the pants can be hung in such amanner that the fabric of the garment will not be pulled out of shapebut will be retained in natural form.

A further object of the invention is the production of a garment hangerthat is provided with means for retaining therein moth repellentcontainers.

A further object of the invention is the production of a hanger of thecharacter described that is simple in construction, economical tomanufacture, strong, durable and highly efficient and serviceable inuse.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description. In the accompanying drawing wherein for thepurpose of illustration, is shown the preferred embodiment of theinvention,

Fig. 1 is a detailed side elevation of a garment hanger constructed inaccordance with my invention,

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the coat hanger element, with the pantshanger detached therefrom and disclosing to advantage the means andtypes of containers for repelling moths,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the pants hanger per se, and

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through one of the arms of thehanger, the view being taken on line l--4 of Fig. 1.

Many types of hangers have been employed for retaining coats andlikewise the pants thereon. In the use of a pants hanger in which thisparticular garment is retained in an inverted position, namely, with thecuffs of the pants portion in or associated with the coat hanger, thereinvariably results the falling of articles from the pockets of thetrousers when the same are suspended. To overcome this annoyance andinconvenience and to likewise provide a pants hanger that will providethe proper conformation ,for the waist portion of the trousers, Ipropose to retain the pants on the hanger in the normal wearing positionof this article of apparel, and furthermore to detachably engage thepants hanger from the coat hanger so that the two devices may be usedindependently of each other.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 5 indicates generally a coat hangerwhich is formed of a single elongated wooden bar having a pair ofdownwardly and outwardly divergent arms 6 and l. A supporting hook 8 issecured to the medial portion 9 of the coat hanger for engagement with asuitable support, such as a rod in a closet. It will be noted that saidhook penetrates the medial portion 9 and terminates at its lowerextremity in an eye 10, the purpose of which will be later described.

It is to be observed that the arms 6 and I are hollowed out or recessedas at H and i2 to thus provide compartments for the reception therein ofperforated elongated moth repellent containers l3 and M, respectively.The means for detachably securing the containers in the compartmentscomprise spring clips [5 that are riveted or otherwise secured as at IEto the arms 6 and 7.

While the coat hanger 5 may be made entirely out of wood, I have foundit most advantageous to construct the pants hanger portion of metal.This pants hanger is indicated, as a whole, by the numeral i1 andembodies in its construction a central narrow medial portion l8 that hasvertically mounted thereon a supporting hook l9 that detachably engagesthe eye Iii of the hook 8. Thus, the two hanger portions can be usedsimultaneously or employed as units for the desired garment hangingpurposes. Pairs of spaced divergent arms 20 and 2! extend laterally fromthe medial portion I8 of the pants hanger and terminate in upwardly bentextensions 22 that engage the belt straps or other sections of the waistportion of the trousers, as desired.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with theaccompanying drawing, it will be obvious that I have devised a mostunique garment hanger that will readily accommodate a coat and trousersor can be independently utilized to support the pants, and which devicewill readily accomplish all the objects of the invention.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as the preferred example of the same and thatvarious changes relative to the shape, size, material and arrangements0! parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of theinvention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: A garment hanger of thecharacter described comprising a central portion and a pair of divergingarms extending laterally therefrom, each of said arms having an openingprovided in the bottom surface thereof, an elongated perforated mothrepellant container provided in each of the openings, and means fordetachably retaining each container in its respective opening, saidmeans comprising a pair of spaced spring clips partially encompassingeach of said containers ll in each of the openings, said clips beingfixedly mounted in each of said arms.

EARL E. CARLTON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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